Chapter 631: The Great Northeast Strategy - The Collision of the Great Han Soul and the Yamato Soul (Medium)

There was no need for any command to fight the battle, and the officers on both sides understood that in this rainy night with visibility of less than five meters, and in this kind of frontal confrontation of armored troops, the role of the commander had been weakened to the extreme, and it was the same.

Judging from the situation transmitted from the battlefield, it is clear that there are no rules and tactics on both sides now, and the well-trained tactics that are usually trained are no longer usable at this time. Even the artillery fire of both sides no longer pursues any accuracy, anyway, as long as the shells fall next to the enemy, as for whether they hit or not, no one is there.

The melee on the nameless hillside continued, and neither Bao Xinghua nor Yokoyama had a better way to defeat each other, because they were not even very clear about the situation on the battlefield now, and the order could not leave the command post, let alone reach the ears of every soldier.

To a greater extent, this battle is now not so much an organized confrontation as an overall confrontation, but rather a spontaneous desperate struggle between the officers and men of both sides. No one organizes, no one commands, some just instinctively fire.

The battle continued until five o'clock in the morning, when the tanks and tanks of both sides ran out of fuel and began to retreat one after another. However, this did not mean that the battle was over, and while the armored forces were slowly retreating, the infantry began to quickly enter the battlefield, on the one hand, to help the wounded on the battlefield. On the other hand, it is to find tanks that still have repair value, which is also an important step in armored warfare.

Of course, Bao Xinghua and others also have a purpose, that is, they are worried that there are still new tanks on the battlefield that are not very seriously damaged and fall into the hands of the Japanese, if the Japanese get the finished T34 tank, with their scientific and technological level and industrial production capacity, they will achieve mass production in a very short time, and then the armor level of the Japanese army will be qualitatively improved.

And Yokoyama Isamu and others obviously understood this, so before Chen Feng's armored troops retreated, a large number of Japanese infantry poured into the battlefield. The purpose was to take advantage of the chaos to capture a few Chinese tanks. for research and production by the Ministry of Military Industry.

Both sides entered the battlefield with their own purposes, so the battle belonging to the infantry began. Unlike the armored troops, the infantry is the last to enter the battle, so it maintains a relatively intact formation when entering the battlefield. The two sides were firing at each other across most of the armored battlefield. And at this time the artillery also seemed to find its own role. Both large-caliber mountain artillery and small-caliber mortars began to wield.

Due to road problems, neither side carried relatively heavy guns, and the largest caliber was only a 75mm mountain artillery field gun.

Infantry battles are relatively disciplined. At the beginning, both sides sent battalion and company units to charge, and although there were casualties on both sides, they were not very heavy.

But by six o'clock in the morning, the rain had stopped, and the sky had begun to turn white, and although it had not yet dawned, the visibility had improved considerably compared to a few hours earlier, and it was still clear to see at least thirty or fifty meters.

In addition, after more than an hour of rest, the armored forces of both sides also completed the assembly again and began to support the infantry operation.

A large number of armored forces poured into the battlefield again, and the whole battlefield began to be chaotic again.

"Boom, boom, boom!!" "Da !!"

The battle on the forward battlefield was in full swing, and the commanders of both sides in the rear command post frowned, and the strength of the other side far exceeded their expectations, especially Bao Xinghua and others.

The successive victories had already made them lose their previous fear of the Japanese army, coupled with the continuous propaganda of the Eighth Theater Command, so all the troops in the Eighth Theater were full of confidence, which was especially obvious in the Panzer Group.

The reason for this, in addition to propaganda, is more important than the fact that the armored units of the Japanese army have been defeated again and again in previous wars, and each time they have suffered heavy losses, and many tank units, including the third tank division of the Japanese army, have suffered heavy losses. And judging by the captured Japanese tanks, the armored weapons of both sides were not at all of the same level.

But this time, due to the special battlefield environment, the gap between the two sides was directly narrowed, and the first division of the Japanese tank was all reequipped not long ago, and the main tank was replaced by the improved Type 97 medium tank, although the improved Type 97 still could not compete with the T34 tank, but there was no problem at all against the Xiafei light tank. So when the losses were reported to the command post, Bao Xinghua and the others were stunned.

"Bastard, why are the losses so great?" Bao Xinghua roared angrily.

"Master, the little devil's losses are heavier than ours! Our army lost more than 240 tanks, and the little devils lost at least 300! Liu Tiannan, chief of staff of the 1st Armored Division, said loudly.

"Yes, Lao Bao, the losses of the little devils are definitely not much smaller than ours, you see the battlefield is full of the wreckage of their chariots!" Li Daniu also said.

"You know what a fart, the performance of the little devil's Type 97 tank is far inferior to our new tank in any way, and our First Armored Division is still the most elite armored unit in the theater, and it is a shame that 240 tanks were knocked out in three hours!"

After speaking, Bao Xinghua ordered loudly: "Pass my order, the whole armored division will press up and launch a group charge against the Japanese army, and this station must completely annihilate the Japanese devils on the opposite side!" ”

"Yes"

Similarly, in the Japanese headquarters opposite, Hengshan Yong and others were also stunned by the heavy casualties!

"Nani, lost 377 tanks?" Isamu Yokoyama looked at Lieutenant General Tsujiro Yamashita of the 1st Chariot Division in horror.

"Yokoyama-kun, the strength of the Shina people is beyond our expectations, and it is likely that there is an armored division of the Shina people on the opposite side, not a small army!" Lieutenant General Tsujiro Yamashita said.

"Yamashita-kun, didn't the base camp say that the performance of the newly improved Type 97 medium tank will not be weaker than the Shina tank, why are the casualties so heavy!" Isamu Yokoyama asked with a frown.

"Yokoyama-kun, we can only listen to half of the words of the base camp, and the rest generally needs to be analyzed by ourselves. But I'm very satisfied with being able to fight like this with the armored forces of China! ”

"Nani?"

"Yokoyama-kun, you are not the commander of the armored forces, and you don't know much about the armored forces. Let me tell you, the empire's chariot can only be in front of the government army and the Tubalu, and it is not a star and a half compared with its European counterparts, this distance is as big as the gap between the A division and the C division, and the level of the armored forces in China has basically caught up with the armored forces of other European countries, I am very satisfied with being able to fight like this, and I must be very satisfied with the base camp for such a record! Lieutenant General Tsujiro Yamashita said with a smile.

"Is the chariot unit of the Shina really so powerful?"

"Hey, it's not just powerful, the empire's chariot troops and the Chinese armored forces have fought a total of 6 armored battles, and the first five were imperial defeats, especially outside the city of Beiping, His Excellency Nishihara's third chariot division was almost wiped out by the armored forces of the Chinese army, and it is precisely because of this that the imperial side was forced to improve the performance of the chariot, and there was an improved model of the chariot in the 97 type."

"Yamashita-kun, if it's really a complete armored division of Shina, what are our chances of winning?" Isamu Yokoyama asked, although the commander-in-chief of this operation was Isamu Yokoyama, it now seems that the key to the victory of the battle is the chariot division.

"About 3 floors!"

"Is there only 3 floors?"

"Yes, I analyzed it just now, the reason why I was able to draw with the Chinese army this time is that it has a lot to do with the battlefield environment, because the battlefield visibility is low, so it directly leads to no one on both sides being able to see anyone, so they can only get close and then fight, so that the thick armor and large-caliber artillery power of the Chinese army can not be fully displayed, anyway, at such a close distance, our shells can destroy them, and their shells can also destroy us, 52mm caliber cannons and 74mm cannons are the same."

"But now that the battlefield has cleared and the sky is about to dawn, the environment of the next battlefield and the embankment will be favorable to the Chinese army, so our army's chances of victory are only about 3 layers."

"3 floors? I can't stop watching, Yamashita-kun, didn't you notice that the souls of two nations are colliding? Isamu Yokoyama said with squinted eyes.

"Soul collision?"

"Yo Xi, is it the collision of the soul of the Japanese Yamato nation and the soul of the Han nation of China, do you see the situation on the battlefield? Everyone is fighting and shooting mercilessly, not so much a noble spirit of self-sacrifice, but all the soldiers have been assimilated by this atmosphere of blood, fire and hell! They are fighting with faith in the country and the nation, and they are the embodiment of the spirit of the two nations! Isamu Yokoyama said loudly.

"Yes, the will to fight of this Chinese army is admirable, and I can see a kind of frenzy from the bottom of my heart on the faces of the soldiers on both sides, and it is this fanatical emotion that drives the soldiers on both sides to fight frantically before this bloody dawn. There is no skill at all in this kind of fighting, it is completely a contest of will and courage, just like Yokoyama-kun said, it is the souls of the two nations that collide! ”

"Yo Si! Yamashita-kun, the victory or defeat of the two sides now no longer depends on the influence of such factors as firepower and tactics, but on the will of the officers and men of both sides. Pass on my order, the first chariot division, the first infantry division, including the command headquarters, and let the national soul of the Yamato nation directly crush that person! ”

"Hai !!"

(To be continued......)